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Automatically Update Copyright Year on a Website (For Dummies)

It may seem like a trivial thing to some, but many web designers, novices, and bloggers don't know how to have the copyright year automatically update on their website.

It's true that the year should really only be updated when the content has been updated, but for small business that don't get around to updating their content much. An ancient copyright year can look bad to prospective customers.

To show the current year, just use the following PHP code snippet.

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Some Color resources

colr.org

colr.org

You can use a picture or website to create a color scheme from. You can also browse through user created schemes.

 

ColorToy

ColorToy

Browse through bright and colorful web-friendly colors.

 

Kuler

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Working on a new design

New web design

 I decided to mock-up a new theme for my blog/website. This is still a work in progress, but I thought it would be interesting to post this now to compare it to the final theme.

Let me know what you think. I've only spent about 2 hours on it so far.

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Tip: Fix stupid IE8 errors: force compatibility mode

Internet Explorer is Stupid

IE has never liked Javascript very much, and IE8 will be rolled out soon. Many nice Javascript elements that I commonly use don't work yet in IE8, such as Shadowbox and BeautyTips.

Don't resize my browser, butthole!

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It really chaps my ass when websites resize my browser window.

How to embed Flickr slideshows and add Shadow box for added awesomeness

If you want to add a really cool slideshow to your website like the one below, just follow these steps:

Italian Spiderman - Part 1

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This has to be one of the greatest things ever posted on YouTube.

I made a playlist with all 10 episodes in order so it will be easy to watch them all.

More Dr. Steve Brule

From the guy that loves Sweet Berry Wine.

Beards

This is serious!

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